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THE UNREST IN GERMANY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT "RETURN OF HEALTHY PATRIOTIC
FEELING
In the course of a lengthy com munication on the unrest in Germany. Harr Wolfram von Knorr, special cor respondent of the Berliner Lokalanzeiger in Yokohama, writes to the Japan Chronicle
AND JAPAN.
SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE AT VLADIVOSTOCK.
HOUSING IN MANY COUNTRIES."
ALLIED CONGRESS IN LONDON IN
JUNE
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
SUCCESSFUL ANNUAL SPORTS,
The annual athletic sports of Queen's College were held yesterday at Causeway, According to a Vladivostock telegram: Delegates appointed by the Governments Bay. There was a large gathering of to the deahi, Mr. Wirensky, represents of the Allied countries will be present at spectators present, the majority being tive of the Soviet Government, has arrived the Inter-Allied Housing and Town Plan school-boys who took a keen interest in at that port. Through the introduction ning Congress to be held in London in the proceedings. There were altogether of Dr. Gilan, of the Czech headquarters, June next. Amongst the subjects to be twenty-three events on the programma First of all I wish to state that the new the fra correspondent visited him at discussed will be national post-war hous. They were all keenly euntested, and some "Tevolution in neither "monarchical," the building which formerly served as ing and town planning policies, the pre extremely close finishes were witnessed in nor Militaristic, nor
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unconstitution-
General Rozinoff's oficial residence. In
paration and carrying into effect of the championship events. Hang Kam alas insinuated in the "Paris Press. The reply to an inquiry as to the object of his national programmes, to secure proper Song on the senior championship and reports clearly arise from a wish to dis visit to Vladivostock, the representative housing conditions, standards of building Nishida, the junior championship. credit a political movement which for the of the Soviet Government told the Japan construction; and national und-regional time, being shows nothing but the returned porrespondent that he had come to town-planning developments The con-H, Crock distributed the prices and was At the conclusion of the sports Mrs. A.. of healthy patriotic feeling and reasoning, confer with the representative of the in Germany after a year of demoralisation Czechs. He also stated that he was en- by Jewish reign, and which, in that I
gress will be asked to determine the mini-presented with a bouquet of dowers." mum accommodation which should be pro In the course of a few remarks Mr. B. vided for a normal working-class family, Tanier, the Headmaster, mentioned that and the best courses to adopt in order to Mr. Laing had presented a silver cup and
saree with the comments, France may trusted with the duty of communicating on toparing to fear one day if she goce the reply of the Japanese Government to torturing my country, na she has been the Russian peace proposals to the Sovies able to do till now, thanks to the very Government and with the commission of encourage the development of new methods four gold medals for the the class tém regrettable protection of England.
TO DEFEND CONSTITUTION.
Mr.
As can be seen already by the nomina conducting negotiations on matters of
of building and the use of new material race, which was won by Class 30. The cup tion of Fieldmarabal von Hindenburg as various kinds. A question by the deans's and special trains will be placed at the Douglas and Cyril, who were shortly pro- provisional President, the form of repub correspondent as to whether the Soviet disposal of the delegates, in which they
The proceedings will occupy nine days, was in remembrance of his two sons, lican government is maintained and I can
sure your readers out of rather good Government still adhered to the original will travel to inspect the progress made ceeding to England for studies. inside knowledge of the new leaders of plan of causing social revolutions: in housing schemes in various parts of the Tanner thanked the donors of prizes and who I am, of course, an enthusiastic throughout the world and of propagating country, including Birmingham, Man those who had helped to mate the sports partisan, that no return to the monarchi cal form of Government is planned. The Bolshevik ideas in other countries, elicited Colonies represented will include Great chester, and Bristol. The countries and
a success, especially Mr. Fletcher, who had return of the former Emperor is nowhere the reply that the Soviet Government had Britain, France, America, Belgium, Italy, looked after the general arrangements. thought of.e
no intention of enforcing the Bolshevik Australia, Canada New Zealand, India, Cheers were then called for Mrs. Crook propaganda upon other countries, though Norway. Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
Egypt, South Africa, Serbia, Greece, and the staff and lustily given. it would act otherwise towards the nations Switzerland, Spain, and, the neutral Re who endorsed the Bolshevik ideas and publics of South America. The congres were not afraid of contamination with is being organised by the National Hous such ideas He observed that the prevailing nad Town-Planning Council, acting ing conditions in Soviet Russia prevented in close consultation with the Ministry the true ideas and tendencies of the Soviet of Health and other departments of the fiovernment from becoming known in British Government. foreign countries, Japan in particulat a circumstance which caused a hindrance to the opening of peace negotiations and to the establishment of mutual under standing The Soviet Government was not solely responsible for this state of Japanese Government plainly showed that things. The recent peace overtures to the the Soviet Government was cognit of
A TURKESTAN, the superior position of Japan in the Fr East, and it was for Japan to frame ber that permission, has now been given for a The Westminster Gazette is informed own peace terms, defining special rights
The overthrow of the former Govern- ment has been necessitated not in violation at the new Constitution of Germany, but just for its defence. Why Because the now forcibly dissolved National Tersammlung" had been elected only for the purpose of framing the new Constito tion Thereupon new elections on the base of this new Constitution should decide the future composition of the National versammlung and result in a govern ment based on a parliamentary majority
In the cruci pontha that have since the "herocs of the revolation, and der Jewish leadership and with foreign money, have helped the Allies to achieve by treason what could not be achieved with arms the rude awakening of the misled masses has followed their crime,
uns
LOST FOR 15 MONTHS.
PRISONERS OF WAR" IN
The Socialistio leaders could not secure and interests which she desired Russia to / Red Cross Commission to proceed, to
prisoners of war in Turkestan.
from our enemies, instigated by France, recognise. Should the Japanese Govern Odessa in order to relieve the distress of the peace of justice they had made belièrement fail to take such steps and should The masses to hope fir. Neither peace, nor bread, nor work could be furnished by the new Socialistic, Government, that so often promised a “paradise on earth" from the moment of its being in power. Misery of vanished terribly, disillusion and despair Every description was the resnit Utopia
was the outcome,
So the Socialistic Government was well aware that the new election would tarn abaoletely against it and rob it not only of the pleasure of dining from the plates of the former Kaiser, but show to the
she completely disregard the Bussh peace proposals the responsibility for the failure of the ponce, proposal would ha ince the summer of 1918. Their number With these prisoners there has been no turally fall.
communication from the outside world upon Japan's shoulders.
about the fate of the Russian peace pro March, 1818, said: "Owing to the Russian Wirensky was evidently much concerned vails due to starvation and disease. A The Arah's correspondent says that Mr is about 40,000, but a high death-rate pre lieutenant, writing in the spring of posals, and kept inquizing as to whether the Japanese Government was going to civil wars all the railway lines have been reply to the Russian overtures at all cut for long distances. We are suffering Particularly was he anxious to know the borribly. Hundreds died of starvation nature of the Japanese peace terms with this spring. Since December, 1917 no the Boviet Government. The Japanese newi
The following were the results
Sang (distance 16 feet 11 inches); 2, LONG JUMP (SENIOR)-1 Hung Kam Kwok U Loung; 3, Mok Ying Rai
LONG JUMP (JUNIOR)-1, Wong Chi Leung (distance 14 feet, 3 inches); Louis Tse Yu; 3, Nishida
100 YARDS (SENIOR)-1, Tsoi Tse Yoi;. 2 Hang Kam Sang; 3, G. A. Hyder (time 11feca.).
100 YARDS (Jusprox).-1, Ishimatsu; 2, S. Nishida; 3, Chari Ping Fai...
HIGH JUMP (SENIOR)-1, TSD The Yui; (height 5 feet, one inch); 2, Young. Wing Foi; 3, Kwok U Leung.
HIGH JUMP (JUNIOR)-1. Louie Tae Ya Cung: 3, Long Wing Kwong. (height 4. feet, 2 inches); , Wong Chi
190 YARDS HURDLE RACE (SENIOR)-1, Ko King Fan; 2, Kwok U Leung (time 184-0secs.). (2)
120 YARDS HURDLE RACE (JUNIOR).—1, Chun (time 25sers.). Ishimatsu, Chan Ping Fai; 3, Lu Pon
Ismail; 3 Wang Cho Chan (time 2mins. HALF-MILE (HANDICAP).-1, D. Laing; 20 3-beecs).
300 YARDS BACS (SENIOR)-1, Hung Kam Sang: Tao Tae Yui; 3, G. A. Hyder
800 YARDS RACE (JUNIOR)-1, Ishima- Fai
whole world the incapacity of its thoughts correspondent begged permission to snap: hope house, but we have not lost all (tame 37 2-3seck),
of Socialism doing positive apbuilding hot him, but he declined, saying that his work. In consequence is tried to stay in consent would be reserved. pending the office without dissolving a Parliament the reply of the Japanese Government to the majority of which was also composed of Russian pence proposals. deputies who feared the day of reckoning just as much and out of similar reason Bo those who so unworthily occupied the Ministerial scate. The new elections, in which every citizen had constitutional rights, were
утвеств
JAPANESE SHIPPING
STATISTICS,
postponed ad calendas FIGURES FOR PAST THREE YEARS
SHOW DECLINE.
Under these conditions it was quite naturals that even the workman of better standing and riper experience began to
SACK RACE-1, D. Laing; 2, Ko King Fan: &, Ko Sit On
of war in Turkestan, but the number of; Wong The Leung; 3, Chan Ping
In July 1915 there were 200,000 prisoners deaths in the following twelve monthe from typhoid and other diseases in estimated at nearly 50,000, When Turkestan was evacuated by the Russian Government, in 1918, 50,000 prisoner were left. Of these 10,000 have died of consumption, typhoid, dysentery, keurvy and malaria,
PUPIL TRACKERS RACE (100 YAEDS)-1, Chan Chi Foon; 2, Wong The Tung; 3. Ng Ka Man
PICE-A-BONE RACK-1, Lam Yak Ying. and Chan Kam Tong, 2, D. Laing and Ko King Fan 3 Leung Tit Sang and Leung
THREE-LEGGED RACK-1, D. Laing and Ko King Fan; 2, Leung Tit Sang, and. Lequg Shiu Min.
DR. HEDBLOM NOT DEAD.”
DE. MAXWELL'S REPORT.
According to Dr, J. Preston Maxwell,
AMBULANCE RACE.-1, Chan Yuk Yin; 2. Ng Fei Kwan; 3, Chan King Ching.
ONE MILE RACE GA Hyder; Leang Tit Sang; 3, Wong Cho Chan.
OBSTACLE RAC1, Messaka; 2. Ko King Fan; &, Tsoi Tse Yue.
The average of the rates at which ocean- long for the return of the "good old going ships were chartered last January times"
only that the terrorism of his radica! fellow-workmen did not allow him Was Y.9.30, as compared with V.22-75 in to complain as long as the former Govern January of last year and Y.33.30 in Janu-ef Shanghai, the report that Dr. Carl ment was in power...
So the present" revolution" is not at ary 1918. A comparison of these figures Hedblom was captured by Heds in Harbin all the work of a limited faction, or a reveals the extent of the depression of the and was shot on the charge of being a FRY, small number of reactionarice, or what else shipping market in Japan since the is untrue. the names are that have been given to them armistice, says the Japan Advertiser.
According to the Shanghai in the Press of this country, but it is the
medical man, Dr.
at present INVITATION RELAY RACK (TWICH ROUND). outcome of the ardent wish of the large ember, 1918, marks a reversal in the ships Rogbetter Minnesota and on January College.
The conclusion of the armistice in. No on the staff of the Mayo Brothers Hospital, St. Paul's College; 2, St. Stephen's majority and the best part of the people. ping situation in this country, a reversal 14th, 1990, Dr. Maxwell and his wife were
January, 1918, when the market was at the dead physician in the city Bar Leung Ho Sang, 2, Lau Hing Chik, ranging from a boom to a slump. In entertained at the homa of the supposedly high-water mark, the charter transac
BLAMING THE FRENCH.
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from Laznin to the chest that Dra Lido
time ago report reached Japan bolm had been captured by the Bolshevik forces. He was charged with being a spy and was shot. The contradictory report will come as a welcome bit of news to the many friends of Dr. Hedblom in the Orient ENT Doub
OFILM SMUGGLING.
A Chinese, procceding on board a vessel
It is most probable that the new leaders will not attain the result without hard @ghting tre, I have already said, composed mainly of of less than 1,000 tona. Their total ton the Abschaum of the German people age was 137,889 tons The average for under Jewish leadership. But I personal each vestel was 7,202, while the terms of ly have no doubt that the new Government contracts averaged six months, and the will come to stay and that even all other charter rates Y.33.30. In January of last countries which are interested in an order year only four steamers, totalling $4,350 ly life free from communistic madness tous, were chartered. Their tonnage, and crime, will one day felicitate the new averaged 6,097 tons, the terms of con leaders of Germany on their achievements, tracts being three and a half months, and which will be of service to all. There the churter rates Y2275 The average markable silence with which the Press of showed a marked decrease, not only in the Great Britain bas till now followed the charter rates, but in respect to the length in the harbour, tried to hoodwink the new evolution: seems me a hint in this of the terms, of contracts, as compared direction which should be well observed. month of the preceding year, five tins of opium in his girdle and ten with the figures for the corresponding Revenue authorities by concealing twenty: Ag has been declared already, the new Government will fully recognise the exist January for is contract to the tins Found his leg. A ing treaties. So there is no danger of new German prisoners in Japan at V.18.50, but Officer, however, stopped the man on us were chartered for the repatriation of the
Chinese Revenue international conflicts if they are not pro- these transactions, being of a special picion He examined him and found the roked by the French who daily try to character, are outside the province of drug. When the man was charged at the humiliate our people, especially in the ordinary commercial transactions, occupied Bhine-Province. It will be the ordinary market four steamers, absolutely their own fault if they stir up ling 22,655 tons, were chartered, their it to oblige be friend. He was fired Magistracy yesterday, he said that it wai total-
:ཞ a new furor teutonieus which then would tonnage averaging 0,664
another man's oplum. He simply carried certainly show that Germans still prefer contracts were three months, and the char
The terms of 81,000. A to dio than to be slaves,v
ter rates Y.0.30, Further it should be well appreciated that the new Government, after the inevit able unrest which will accompany its con- solidation, means a return to work and order in Germany free from the Bolshevik experiments which at present threaten to strangle our whole economic life. If our former enemies hope for any sort of re- paration it will surely only come from the Government which is now getting into power.
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The following wore the officials:- President Mr. B. Tanner; Vico-Pre- sident Mr. A. M. Crook: Entertainment Committee: Mr. B. Tanner. The Mise tresses, and Mr. Cheung Hok Chay: Starters: Mesera. J Ralston, G. E. B. Messrs. A. H. Crook, Tse Ching Fong, W. Upsdell, and Kong Ki Fai; Judges:
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A PLAUSIBLE THIEF.
Magistracy, for some time, game, from the One of the tallest stories related at the lips of a Chinese youth, charged with stealing a bundle of glothes. He told the
The average tonnage of each vessel thus HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE Magistrate tast he went to a Chinese decreased from, 7,262 tons in January. 1918, to 6,087 tons in January, 1919, and. then to 5,664 tons in January, 1920. This cpnstant falling off in the size of ships for actual charter transactions is" No less significant and more apparent is significant. the decline in charter rates, from 1,33.30 to .22-76, and then to X.9.30
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Theatre on Wednesday night to pass a pleasant evening, and afterwards, not knowing where to sleep, and being an old employee of the Sanitary Department, he thought he would go down to the coole quarters. That was at midnight. After Wellington Strect he was going to turn walking about for three hours in in when he noticed two shadows, moving ruspiciously. Thinking that the shadows were up to no good he concealed himself detective came along and he informed him of what he had seen. The detective went out to investigate, while he remained
The highest rate reached in January, 1915, was 40 for the Harina Maru, which was chartered by the Kahara Com pany for the term of seven months; the The enormous profits earned by tobacco record for January, 1918, was Y38 for C.S.M. Frost in transferred to the Volun behind a wall and kept watch. Just then companies is evidenced by the report of the Kureyama Mari, which was also char- the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Greated by the Kubara Company for a single Britain and Ireland). Limited, which was voyage to Marseilles. The highest rate ined on February 8th The net trading for lanuary 1920, was 79.30 paid for Churrb Parade on Easter Sunday. As at his post to seize the men if they ran in Droit for the year to October 31st last war the Fidai Maru and the Meich Maru, semble at Headquarters at 2.10 p.m. his direction. While waiting he turned 24,662,671 bis compares with £2,827,200 chattered by Masuda and Co. for the Uniform Caps and belts, band with in round and to his surprise found a bundle in the previous year. The company's Australian service and by the Nippon capital was recently increased to Yusen Kaisha for the Indian service res N.C.O. Instruction Classes will be resumed the bundle to the Police Station, when the strumenta je to pri of clothes near him. He intended Inking £33,000,000, of which £29,519,923 has pectively. It is true that the rate for the isaped. The British-American Tobaco three steamers chartered for the repatria- Company has announced record profite for tion of German prisoners was X,16.50 each, 1919-19-Amounting to 23,776,600, against 23,140,000 for 1917-18
but this cannot be taken as a standard for ordinary commercial transactions.
a
on Monday, April 12th, 1920, V
G. F. E. RAPSON, Major,
Adjutant, HCV.D.C.
Hongkong, April 1st, 1920.
detective returned and arrew him th Magistrate was evidently not impre
In an interesting tale, but the
for he passed upon the defendant a sen- tence of six weeks hard labour.